PRACTICAL
Fees, sessions, payments
What is your fee for individual psychotherapy?
Therapy sessions are £65
• Sessions last 50 minutes
• In-person and online sessions
• Weekly sessions are usually held at the same time each week
• There is no fixed minimum or maximum number of sessions
How does payment work?
Payment is made via bank transfer 24 hours before the first session. For ongoing session payment is usually made on a monthly basis.
What is your cancellation policy?
Appointments cancelled within 48 hours will be charged at the full session fee.
If I'm able to offer an alternative appointment within the same week, I will.
Regular attendance helps protect the continuity of the therapeutic work, so I ask clients to keep to their agreed session time wherever possible
THERAPY
Working with me
What happens in an initial conversation?
The initial conversation is a brief, informal 15-minute call. It gives you a chance to tell me a little about what has brought you to therapy, ask any questions, and get a sense of whether I might be the right person for you.
There’s no pressure to make a decision during the call, and it isn’t a therapy session in itself. It’s simply a first step to see whether working together feels like a good fit.
What can I expect from therapy?
Therapy offers space to slow things down and begin to understand what may be happening for you.
We might explore current difficulties, earlier experiences, relationships and patterns that seem to keep repeating. Understanding where these patterns come from can be important, but insight on its own is not always enough to create change.
Over time, we can begin to work through these patterns together, including how they may show up in the therapeutic relationship, and find different ways of relating to yourself, to others and to the things that feel difficult
What if I've never had therapy before?
You don’t need to know what to say, where to start, or how therapy is supposed to work.
We can take things at your pace and begin with whatever feels most important or most manageable to talk about.
There is no expectation that you arrive with everything worked out or that you immediately talk about things you are not ready to explore.
Therapy is something we work out together over time.
Do you work with specific issues?
You may be coming to therapy because there is something specific you want to explore, such as anxiety, loss, relationship difficulties or a particular experience that is affecting you. Or you may simply have a sense that something doesn’t feel right, without being able to put your finger on exactly what it is.
Either is absolutely fine. We can start with what is bringing you to therapy and explore it together, looking not only at what is happening now, but also at the experiences, relationships and patterns that may be shaping how you feel.
Do you work with neurodiversity?
Yes. I work with neurodivergent adults, as well as people whose lives are affected by neurodiversity within their families or relationships.
Therapy can offer space to explore how you experience yourself, other people and the world around you, including the impact of masking, feeling different, relationship difficulties, overwhelm, burnout or trying to fit into environments that do not always feel designed with you in mind.
We can work together in a way that forefronts your individual needs, communication style and experiences.
What if I don't really know what is wrong?
You don’t need to have a clear explanation for why you want therapy.
Sometimes people come because they simply know they don’t feel quite themselves, feel stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or find that something in life is not working in the way they would like.
We can start with whatever you do know and explore it together, gradually making sense of what may be contributing to how you feel and what might help things begin to change.
Is what we talk about confidential?
Yes. What you share in therapy is confidential.
There are some limits to confidentiality however. If I am concerned that you are a serious risk to yourself or others, or where I am legally required to disclose information, I may need to break confidentiality. I would always aim to discuss this with you first wherever possible.
As part of ethical practice, I also discuss my clinical work in supervision, but identifying information is kept to a minimum.
How do I know if we are a good fit?
A good fit is less about having everything in common and more about how it feels to be with your therapist. You need to feel that you can begin to be open, that you might be able to trust me, and that I can understand — or at least really try to understand — your experience.
You may get a sense that I 'get you' and that you don’t have to perform. Eventually it should feel like there is enough safety in the relationship for us to be honest together.
That sense usually develops over time, but the initial conversation can give you a first feel for whether working together might be right.
Still have a question?
If there's something you'd like to ask before deciding whether therapy feels right for you, you're very welcome to get in touch.
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